gallery nom time to catch the skytrain 070123 ... tender_square there's a couple approaches: all the same sized prints in all the same style frames, evenly spaced. or mixed media in multiple sizes inside mixed-up frames, in a clumped-together cohesion. i wanted the latter but worried about busyness. how do you combine sparse graphic prints with pulp covers and classically rendered landscape paintings while also adding a touch of the personal, the photographed? at the thrift store, i found a pair of oversized watercolour landscapes in teal, purple and pink. the creamy band of matting thick around a thin, rounded gold frame. they felt conservative and grown-up, like they should only be married to each other against the wall, seen as one story. when i showed my mother, she reminded me of my grandmother's paris prints i'd been storing in a closet: two slick cityscapes, one of a bustling cafe, the other of the eiffel tower and the seine. my parents had paid a lot of money to mat them in lapis, and encase in glass and silver ornate frames as a gift. my mother said it would mean a lot to her to know that they were used. and so, now there will be a balanced quadrant of vertical and horizontal images bathed in blue and precious metals. a design that was more structured than what i had originally envisioned but more fulfilling nonetheless. 230108 what's it to you? who go blather from